Applying Your License

Description of how to apply your license information to your Typhoon HIL Control Center installation.

Applying Your License Information in Typhoon HIL Control Center

After starting the software, you must log in with your User Credentials, in order to activate your license. Click on the login icon in the top right corner (Figure 1) and log in with your e-mail and password. The license will be pulled automatically.

Figure 1. Login to Typhoon HIL Control Center

After logging in, you must restart the software to apply the license. If you logged in correctly, after restarting the software, the Login button will appear green. If you requested the license for TyphoonSim and it is approved, you will be able to use TyphoonSim inside the Typhoon HIL Control Center as well.

Alternatively, if you want to change the license manually, follow the steps below.

Manual license import and change

License files can be imported using the License panel in Typhoon HIL Control Center (Figure 2).

Figure 2. License panel in Typhoon HIL Control Center

To import the license manually:

  1. Start Typhoon HIL Control Center
  2. Click the Download license button
  3. Enter your site key or activation key
  4. The license should be automatically downloaded and imported, in which case you can now proceed to step 8
  5. Alternatively, you can download your license filed directly from your Subscription Portal account page
  6. Click License -> Import license
  7. Navigate to, select, and import the license file
  8. If the license file is successfully imported, the message shown in Figure 3 will popup
    Figure 3. Successfully imported license file message
  9. Restart Typhoon HIL Control Center to apply the new license file
  10. If the license file is correctly imported, the license button will appear green, as shown in Figure 4
    Figure 4. Successfully imported license

Once imported, the license will be saved in the license folder (typically C:\Users\[name_of_user]\AppData\Local\typhoon\license).

Note: If the procedure fails, this is most likely due to missing or incorrect proxy settings. Please double check them.
Note: License file content changes may result in an inability to compile Schematic Editor models and/or an inability to run certain compiled models on HIL devices.

To change the license manually:

There is a button that allows you to manage/switch between multiple licenses. This is useful when a Virtual HIL user becomes a user of a HIL device, as well as for companies/users who have multiple sites.

  1. Start Typhoon HIL Control Center
  2. Click License -> Change license
  3. Enter your site or activation key
  4. The new license will be automatically applied
Figure 5. Change license window
Note: It is possible to define a global license which will be shared among all users on a given PC. To do this on a Windows platform, create the following folder structure on your operating system drive root: .typhoon_hil\license\ (example: C:\.typhoon_hil\license) and place the license file into that license folder. On Linux, the global license folder is defined as TYPHOON_LICENSE_DIR/license where TYPHOON_LICENSE_DIR is the environment variable. This global license will always take priority over the license in the user folder. To stop using the global license, just delete the folder structure of the global license.

Applying Your License Information to TyphoonSim Software

After starting the software, you must log in with your User Credentials in order to activate your license. Click on the login icon in the top right corner (Figure 6) and log in with your e-mail and password.

Figure 6. Login to TyphoonSim

After logging in, you must restart the software to apply the license. If you logged in correctly, after restarting the software, the Login button will appear green.